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Old Posted Oct 24, 2013, 6:14 PM
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a wet morning --->

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In this 1951 picture of Hollywood Boulevard at Western, it looks like Rompage Hardware had moved a few doors down the street.


USC Digital Library

Detail from photo above:


I got curious about the very pretty building that was once a Rompage's location...



5542 Hollywood Blvd



LATimes July 10, 1927


Not sure of its various other tenants over the years, but at one point Lester's School of Ventriloquism was in the building—apparently Edgar Bergen took brush-up classes there.

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